Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] time " in BNC.

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1 In the course of ten years , some fifty students were trained , about half of whom went on to ordination and a few of the others were ordained after my time .
2 The only occasion when rail closures were raised in my time at the Transport Department was in the spring of 1981 .
3 He and his wife Ann were unstinting of their time in attending lectures , functions and committees and they won the affection and admiration of a great many people at all levels .
4 Thalberg ( 1812–71 ) was considered in his time Liszt 's only true rival .
5 With music by DJ Noel Watson and costumes by Andre Walker , the piece was inspired by her time spent living in Harlem last year and by the era of Josephine Baker , Lena Horne and Cab Calloway .
6 Her second child was born during her time at Somerville while she was studying for an M. Phil in Social Anthropology , and she describes ‘ the time when Mrs Indira Gandhi was awarded the Hon.
7 Alexander , Duke of Ross , was born before his time on the thirtieth April 1514 ! ’
8 For years we had no telephone , and the house was lit in our time by acetylene gas which we made each evening in the pigsty .
9 By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed .
10 We can account for what he was doing with his time , but this is not the same thing as explaining how or why the tone of voice — that vigour , that distinctively Lewisian freshness and vitality — was so long in coming .
11 He was beginning to see that his concept of Art with a capital A was European , based on a classical tradition that was never going to expand to meet the challenge of the new generations of painters because it was defined by its time .
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